Opinion

6 years ago | December 8, 2017

China’s debt levels pose stability risk, says IMF

Fears that China risks being the cause of a fresh global financial crisis have been highlighted by the International ...

Inclusive capitalism and the sharing economy

Aurra Kawanzaruwa The conversations around ‘inclusive capitalism’ gained traction in Southern Africa at the end of 2015 ...

An all-inclusive, Zim-centric budget

Muhammad Umar Finance and Economic Development Minister Patrick Chinamasa presented his 2018 National Budget yesterday, ...

Bird flu outbreak to send SA egg prices soaring

Johannesburg. — The price of eggs is set to increase further after a significant jump in the past few months, owing to ...

SA’s capitalist class in crisis

Hffingtonpost. — Two of South Africa’s biggest companies —Naspers and Steinhoff — find themselves in the middle of ...

Bird flu outbreak to send SA egg prices soaring

Johannesburg. — The price of eggs is set to increase further after a significant jump in the past few months, owing to ...

David Davis is bluffing on Brexit

Brexit is the story that rolling news was invented for. Whether the latest word from Brussels, the chaos that was ...

Ghana seeks $750m loan to replace cocoa trees

Ghana’s cocoa regulator plans to raise $750 million in loans to finance the replacement of almost half of the trees that ...

Australian Securities Exchange adopts blockchain technology

Sydney. — The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has become the first major bourse to announce the adoption of ...

Could Govt intervention halt Bitcoin craze?

Jeffrey Gogo Bitcoin this week continued with its roller-coaster ride, smashing through the $20 000 threshold, as ...

6 years ago | December 1, 2017

Speculators fear anti-corruption probes

Prosper Ndlovu Bulawayo Bureau — The anti-corruption stance under the new political dispensation has sent shivers ...

Critical economic areas needing attention

Business Writers — Zimbabwe has been in economic doldrums for the past 17 years, which have been characterised by ...

Ability to innovate will be essential in near future

Robert Gonye — “We must be innovative” has become a mantra for the business community. However, few really know ...

Small business and market analysis

Markets are a critical matter for every small business. You may have a brilliant product or service but if no one is ...

President must stick to his guns

Today marks the first week of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s rule. While the events which culminated in the resignation ...

Unspoken need to balance job creation, capital investment

— Modern investment is actually towards labour replacement Chris Chenga — It is very rare to hear any ...

Building firm foundation for real economic transformation

Nixon Shingi Chekenya — “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of foolishness…it was ...

Zimbabwe’s currency conundrum

. . . Is full dollarisation the answer? Clive Mphambela — Following a decade of instability and hyperinflation ...

6 years ago | November 24, 2017

Taper FDI expectations, for real reforms are not merely ...

Chris Chenga Politics tends to be a discipline of scape-goating and passing along culpability to one’s opponents. As a ...

Reform or die!…President-designate Mnangagwa seen as ...

Editor Zimbabwe’s second executive President since independence in 1980, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is expected to be sworn in ...